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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

The undersigned. having settled in the
Orphans Court of Carroll county, an account
of the personal estate of Theodore A. Bixler,
late of said county, deceased, and ascertained
the balance in her hands for distribution, ae
cording to law, among the creditors OF said
deceased, hereby gives notice to said credi-
tors to file their claims against said deceased,
illegally authenticated, with the Register of
Wills for Carroll county, on or before the
9th day of December, 1887, preparatory tc q
distribution of the assets of said personal
estate to be made amongst said creditors
under the direction of the Orphans Court Of
Carroll county, on the 9th day of December,
1887. After the final ratification of said dis
tribution by the Orphans Court aforesaid,
the undersigned will be prepared to pay to
each of said creditors their respective divi-
dends according TO said distribution.
REBECCA E. BIXLER,
noyl2 At Administrative.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26
TO CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the subscribers
have obtained from the Orphans Court OF
Carroll county, in Maryland, letters tes-
tameutary on the Personal Estate of
JOHN STUDY.
late of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the yonch-
ers thereof legally authenticated, to the sub
scribers, on or before the 18th day of June,
1888; they may otherwise by law be ex-
eluded from all benefit Of said estate.
Given under our hands this 7th day of
November, 1887.
EMANUEL STUDY,
ALBERT STUDY,
NELSON STUDY,
novi2 At Executors.
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TRUSTEE'S SALE
Il OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE

IN freedom Dlstrlct, OarTol Nouhtyi 4hu.
By virtue of decree of the Circuit Court
for Carroll county, passed in cause No. 1884
therein, will offer at Public Sale on the prem
Uses, situated Immediately on the Baltimore
and Liberty road, within one mile of Free
dom, in Carroll county, Md, on
Thursday, the LIST day Of December, 1887,
at o'clock, p. M, all that lot or parcel of
land containing
s5 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
of which Joshua Lee, Sr,, died seized and
possessed. The improvements
consist of comfortable Log &AS
Dwelling House, Log Barn, X 49,
Corn House, Granary, Wagon kszz1355zz-.
Shed, lie. There is never failing spring of
"a. water near the buildings; two Apple
49, Orchards and an abundance of other
- fruit on the premises. The land is in
a fair state of cultivation, laid off into conve-
nient fields, and under good fencing. Five
acres are in Timber and the balance Meadow
and arabic land. This property is elligibly
located, convenient to Churches, Schools,
&c., and worthy the attention of any person
desiring home in good neighboEhood.
For further particulars, call upon or address
the Trustee at Freedom, Md.
Terms of Sale One third part of the
purchase money to be paid in cash on the day
of sale, or on the ratification thereof by the
Court; balance in one and two years ;credit
payments to bear interest from the day OF
saie and to be secured to the satisfaction of
the Trustee.
SAMUEL L. LITTLE, Trustee.
McKxLLIp & CLABAUGH, Solicitors,
;nov5 is Jos. w. Berrett, Auctioneer.
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oATIF1cAT1oN NOTICE.
| Court of Carroll County.
OCTOBER TERN, 1887.

Court Of Carroll County.
OCTOBER TERN, 1887.
Daniel Hartman, deceased.
don it is ordered this 18th day
1, 1887, that the sale Of the real
+ III 3aniel Hartman, late of Carroll
x69 CEASED, made by James A. G. Bond,
administrator de bonis non with the last will
and testament annexed of said deceased, and
this day reported to this Court by the said adj
ministFator, be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause be shown to the contrary on or before
the Sd Monday, 18th day, of December, next;
provided copy of this order be inserted for
three successive weeks in some newspaper
printed and published in Carroll county, be-
fore the End Monday, 18th day, Of December,
next.
ing RS report states the amount of sale to be
received FIVE ducks 5liGlbty dollars 81 $4,000
threw the lowest and got FIVE dull
Michael Ham and James Boylen eacnwe.
a turkey, and Charles Singer duck, at a
rattle at Shugh's butcher shop on Monday
evening.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26

A gentleman, who is somewhat deaf, is
the owner of dog which has become the
terror Of the neighborhood. The other day
be was accosted BY friend, who said, Good
morning, Mr.. S-YOur wife made us
very pleasant call last evening" "I'm
very sorry, came the startling reply; "Tll
see that Il doesn't ocecuF again, for / in-
tend to keep her chained UP after this
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26

a lawyer was talking before Wisconsin,
Judge on the weakness Of certain pEssnmp-
tive.eyidence, when the Judge interrupted
him with: aYou needn't talk any moro
about that. This court Is presumed 20
know something. To this the lawyer
mnrmured n0ply another proof Of the
weakness Of all pfssumpsisas.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26

Customer Ito coal dealer): sHaye you
got any name for those scales of yours 2"
al never heard of scales having name"
ssWell you ought to call your scales Am
bush. You see, they are always lying in
weight"
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OAK HALL.

As our store has been enlarged and i'm
proved by glass front, we send out our fall
greeting to our many friends to visit our es-
Enlistment. Our increasing trade necessi-
tated large store, and we have it. We also
have the goods requisite to make our store
attractive. Oak Halls reputation IS that
there is no description practical. Our goods
are always found to be as advertised. The
only difference is we don't advertise one-half
we have. Our goods that we advertise you
viii find in stock, and not on paper. 1t is
useless for us to attempt to tell of our stock.
All who visit our store can testify to the
above.
OUR DISPLAY OF DRESS GOODS
This fall is superior to any we have ever
shown, our prices lower than ever, and, as
our facilities have been increased, we hope to
do you good by trading with us this fall.
DRESS GOODS IN ALL SHADES,
From SC up to SOC, Toe and 81; $1.40 81 inch
Cloth at SOC. Does it sound cheap? We
have them. Beautiful line of Tricots, Cloth
and fine French Mistuns, from 40c to Soc and
Coo; handsome Combinations from Coo to 81;
beautiful line of Black Goods, from 25c to
slips. We still handle our celebrated Black
Silk at 81 and SLIPS, guaranteed not to cut;
Trimmings in Velvets, Pushes, Colored Silks
and Satin Rhadamas, q beautiful line; Braids,
Braided Ornaments, Buttons and all to match;
our Flannels are always superior IN quality
and price; our Domestics are lower than ever
before all through the line. If you want to
see the champion 104 White Blanket of Car
roll county call at Oak Hall. We ask $1.25
per pound, weigh to 81 pounds; we bought
rs pairs, and are selling fast. Do you know
we have an immense stock of
MEMS, YOUTHS & BOYS CLOTHING,
from 81. 80 to $40 suit; 0vercoats all prices.
We also can show our youths and fastidious
young men beautiful line of Cassimeres from
25c to SIS per yard, not in sample, but right
here in stock; beautiful line of Ladies' and
Children's Coats are on the way, and will
arrive this week; Gents Hats and Furnishing
Goods, all the very latest.
OUR BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT
Is immense. Evitts Shoes the ladies all
want, the misses will have and the children
cry for. ask for our SLIPS Button Shoe, all
solid. Splendid line of Robes and Buggy
Blankets. In Carpets we have them from l5c
in hemp up; home made Rag Carpet, A, &c
per yard; Ingram and Brussels at all prices;
Smyrna Rugs, Druggets, Oil Cloth and Brus-
sells Rugs, all prices; we can save you big
money in Carpets. We handle them by the
roll, and not by sample. We solicit your
trade because we feel we can do you good.
Our increased trade we attribute 10 our fair
dealings with ALL We hope to receive a
liberal share of your trade during the fall and
winter season. Thanks for past patronage.
Very respectfully yours,
GEO. c. ANDERS,
ects If New Windsor, Nd.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26

There is something better than the gift
Of tongue-it is the gift Of holding the
tongue,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26

A Washington man tells of quarrel be-
tween two negro boys. The larger boy,
with great volubility, was applying every
sort Of abusive epithet. The younger boy,
leaning against fence and steadily regard
ing the speaker with a sullen scowl, waited
for halt. At last it came.
aIs you done?"
"Yes, l is DONE"
Then slowly and coolIy the younger said:
aAll dem things you said / is, you IS
dem.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-08
The Mice-Skin Market.

The story goes that the fur-runner
has one section of Maine in which his
appearance on fur buying trip is an
event. About everybody sells to him,
and he hasn't made many mistakes in
his buying. He cultivates this section.
He saves his best Jokes and his fun
NEST stories for this locality. Hence
his grip is good and he don't want to
lose it.
1t was after successful expedition
into this section recently that the far
runner fell a talking. Now, there is
danger when a man falls a talking,
and on this day in question the peltry
king told yarns and talked about furs
and how money could be made and
lost in them. Said he to the listeners:
''Why don't yOu save up some mice
skins! The market is big on mice.
They are worth, femme see-they are
worth about $40 hundred" and then
he smiled complacently as a man
spoke up and said: ''B' gosh, is that a
fact? Well. now, you bet we could
get bushel on 'em in a week if we
was mind to-" 1t was only just a sort
of joke, and he went away forgetting
to remove the impression.
Several months passed and he went
back again, bargaining and buying.
He had traded for a good many furs
when, in the course of the trade, the
seller said: 'sThe boys has got lots
of mice skins for you" The buyer
looked wonderingly, and then up out
of the past came the vision of his pre-
vious iniquity. They have, have
they?" replied he. well, | don't
know, exactly. Did | say I'd take
'em? ''That's what you said" was the
reply Ten dollars hundred, and
the boys had about two hundred of
'em."
1t was a sad fact. The industrious
boys had fully that number of mice
skins stretched on boards. The buyer
had to invent something, and SO he
said that the market had dropped off
over three-quarters since he was here
before, and he ended by settling with
the boys for S. bill. 1t would never
have done to have declined them, for
that might have spoiled the trade on
more stable and more marketable
pelts in that vicinity foreyer.-Leo0is-
tom Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-08

years; he should, therefore, under
ordinary circumstances, live to be
100; infancy extending to the goth
year; youth to the 50th. when the
tissues become firm; virility to 10, and
old age from IS to 100.
Some of the lawyers of Rutland,
Vt, are complaining bitterly about
the law business, and say if it keeps
on declining rs it has during the last
three years there will be nothing to do
about 1900. The dockets for the
County courts twenty years AGO con-
tanned usually four or FIVE hundred
eases, while for the coming term of
the County court there will probably
not be half that number of eases
entered on the docket for trial.
The Sultan of Johore has q wonder
full palace near Singapore. Its wealth
and beauty rival the arabian NIGHTS"
tales splendor; and he is always will
ing to show his marvels to the many
strangers touching at his shore. He
entertains his guests at meals with
food served in golden vessels. which
service cost 100000. The reoalia he
wears is valued at 100000 a sword
Queen Victoria presented cost the neat
sum of $4,000, and he delights to daz-
zle the eyes of his enchanted specta-
tors with these wondrous visions OF
wealth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-08
Marrying for Money.

'tWho can blame a girl if
she does marry for money and posi-
tion?' said a pretty woman to a poor
young man. You men sacrifice your
inclination and comfort, your health
and happiness, frequently your honor,
in the struggle for wealth. Are you
ever censured for it as long as you are
not detected in any deed positively
criminal? Yet when woman takes
her wares to the only market she can
find, and barters them to the highest
bidder, people sheer unpleasantly at
her; and, if the marriage turns out
disastrously, exclaim with positive de-
light: i feel no pity for her. She sold
herself Women's training and sur
roundings prevent them from making
a name or position for themselves out
side of society, save in cases of excep-
tional ability and determination. A
clerk does not refuse to serve an en-
ployer because he may be old, ugly,
and ill-tempered. He gives his time
for a stipulated sum. For the same
reason cool-headed women marry
PHILADELPHIA NeUs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-08
Rare Old Humor.

An old cavalier was asked, when
Cromwell coined his first money, what
he thought of it. On one side was the
inscription, ''God with u.s.; and on the
other, 1.-The Commonwealth of Eng
land" Il see," he said, 'sthat God and
the commonwealth are on different
sides"
Two candidates, named Adam and
Low, had to preach probation sermons
for lectureship in the gift of a GER
tain congregation. Mr.. Low preached
in the morning, taking for his text the
words, Adan1, where art thou?" and
giving an excellent sermon. Mr.
Adam took for his text, to the surprise
of the congregation and his rival, the
passage: ''LO, here 1 am" From this
he preached such a splendid impromptu
sermon that he gained the lecture
ship.
To conclude, we give the story Of an
amateur artist who had decided to send
the productions of quarter of cen
fury to some charitable institution for
the benefit of the inmates. Before
doing so, he invited an old, plain
spoken Scotch arts to see his works,
informing him at the same tune of his
philanthropic intention, and asking his
advice as to the institution on which
he should confer so much honor.
well, was the grim reply, ''if We
will compliment them, the best place
ken o is the blind asylum. y Cham.
berS'S JOurRdL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-08
a Promising Journalist.

One day during the encampment the
managing editor, says the Houston
Post, found he was short man to
report part of the proceedings on the
grounds. Spying the foreman of the
composingroom, he requested him to
take notes of a company drill and this
is the way he did it:
Promptly at o'clock the company
marched upon the ground and were
received by a burst of applause. I'M
mediately the father of the chapel
called time and the foreman of the
company began to call off by slugs.
When he called out slug 1 they unfxed
bayonets and kept on through the
manual by numbers. The company
was made up of numerous wrong
fonts, there being plea man along
side OF miniOn one and a BREWER boy
alongside of a nonpareil one. In COM
pany front the line was very unevenly
justified, there being a Sem space be-
tween some members, while between
others there was fully Sem quad
In platoon movements the fellow who
acted as right hyphen slipped below
the line and all three of the proof
readers commenced to mark errors.
In wheeling left in circle one handful
got badly squabbled, and when they
went to call off phalanx of four to
send to the front and center the whole
form got pied and the proof-readers
and copy-holder again got their work
i'll. In marching in columns of tours
another bad company error was made.
Some thought they had got a price
and-a-half table off the file, while
others evidently thought they had
struck four columns of figures and
words and put in a period when they
should only have used a comma, in
making time around the drill grounds.
When the assistant foreman was
ordered to make up a four-page from
he made serious error, having only
a plea between two pages, while be-
tween others there was 4-line plea
In marching in double rank the first
three lines were solid, while the re-
mainder were loaded and double
loaded, which is not in accordance
with tactics. The foreman, assistant
foreman, proOf-readers. and COPY
holder all had column rules, which
some of them brandished finely After
the three United States proof-readers
were through marking errors the COM
pany passed out amid a storm of APP
plause. Time, p minutes l 1-64
second"
And he drank nothing but beer,
either.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-08
Boiling Coffee.

Whether coffee shall be boiled or not
will probably be always a question
Many think it has a raw taste if not
boiled; others contend that, in boiling,
much of the aroma is lost Boiling
makes the mixture roily, and it musf
stand long enough to let the grounds
settle and the liquid become cleaF.I
Some albuminous material will help tos
clear ii. Fish skin, islnglass, cold
water and eggs are used for this pur-
pose. Eggs give it flavor and body,
and, no doubt, improve an inferior
quality of coffee; but they increase the
cost Of the beverage, as, aside from
their own cost, they clog the grounds,
thus making larger amount of coffee
necessary to obtain the desired
strength. But if coffee must be boiled,
let it be boiled in closely-covered
vessel with a thimble OF cork in the
spout, as, if left uncovered, the yola-
tile oil, which forms the fragrant aro-
ma, is dissi pated; and it should never
boil more than five minutes, as longer
boiling extracts the tannic acid. There
is widely prevalent, but erroneous
notion that long boiling extracts more
of the strength and color, and is, there
fore, more economical; but strength
and color thus gained are obtained at
the expense of flavor and wholesome
ness.-Mdry i. Lincoln IN Good House
keeDinO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-08
She Cured Him.

There is young married man living
in Minneapolis who is very good fel-
low, out he has fallen into the habit of
using profanity almost constantly.
His charming wife tried a dozen ways
to break him of the habit without sue
cess. Finally she decided upon plan.
He came home the other evening and
remarked Its been h--of day,
hasn't it:?' What in has been
the matter with it?" asked the wife
coolly. He looked as if he had been
struck by a cyclone. 1t required two
days to break the young man of the
habit, for his wife repeated every
'swear-word" he used in her presence.
Now he doesn't swear even when he
misses a nail and strikes his finger with
the hammer.--ArgOndut.